No Water No Moon ~ 05
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 15 Aug 1974 am |
| location | Lao Tzu balcony, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 13min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | NOMOON05 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- The Zen master Gutei made a practice of raising his finger whenever he explained a question about Zen.
- A very young disciple began to imitate him, and whenever anyone asked the disciple what his master had been preaching about, the boy would raise his finger.
- Gutei got to hear about this, and when he came upon the boy as he was doing it one day, he seized the boy, whipped out a knife, cut off his finger, and threw it away.
- As the boy ran off howling Gutei shouted, "Stop!"
- The boy stopped, turned round, and looked at his master through his tears. Gutei was holding up his own finger.
- The boy went to hold up his finger, and when he realized it wasn't there he bowed.
- In that instant he became enlightened.
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